New Work

Uneasy Heavens Await Those Fleeing
Diptych
Response to title by Jennifer Borges Foster
acrylic, ink, graphite, glitter on board
30 x 60"
2009

Details:

This piece is the first in a new series:

Two Sides to Every Story. I've been layering two opposing approaches for several years. One is messy; using turbulent techniques, such as, dripping, pours, splatters to create effective representations of natural elements. The other is controlled; lines, concentric circles, grids and repetitive dots drawn with pen and ink, architects' tools, templates and compasses reflecting structures and infrastructures that we build.

Now I will separate, distill and place these same approaches in juxtaposition. On one side, using limited palettes--desaturated, sometimes nearly monochromatic--will be a field of controlled forms; clean and precise, emphasizing differences in surface textures to pick out forms, lines and fields of dots. Evidence that tools were manipulated readiliy apparent. On the other, paint will be allowed to follow its most natural tendencies; evidence of my influence on the medium disappearing to a minimum.